Ernie Janes / Close up of tail sting of Hornet (Vespa crabro) UK

Neil Aldridge / Tail of an adult Temminck's Ground Pangolin (Smutsia temminckii) showing the scales that make pangolins the world's most illegally trafficked mammal. More pangolins are illegally trafficked than...

Neil Aldridge / Tail of an adult Temminck's Ground Pangolin (Smutsia temminckii) showing the scales that make pangolins the world's most illegally trafficked mammal. This pangolin was rescued during a sting oper...

Neil Aldridge / Tail of an adult Temminck's Ground Pangolin (Smutsia temminckii) showing the scales that make pangolins the world's most illegally trafficked mammal. This pangolin was rescued during a sting oper...

Neil Aldridge / Vet taking a rescued Temminck's ground pangolin (Smutsia temminckii) for a walk to forage for ants during its rehabilitation at the Rhino Revolution facility in Limpopo Province, South Africa. Thi...

David Woodfall / Honey bee (Apis mellifera) on Sea holly (Eryngium) Wales, UK, July.

David Woodfall / Honey bee (Apis mellifera) on Sea holly (Eryngium) Wales, UK, July.

Emanuele Biggi / Scorpion (Ttityus sp.) close up of sting, on white background, Los Amigos Biological Station, Peru.

Adrian Davies / Asian forest scorpion (Heterometrus longimanus) close up of tail. Captive.

MYN / Gil Wizen / Telson and sting of black fat-tailed scorpion (Androctonus bicolor), Central Coastal Plain, Israel, June. Focus stacked and cropped. meetyourneighbours.net project

Pascal Kobeh / Close-up of blackspotted stingray (Taeniurops meyeni) tail and sting, Maldives, Indian Ocean.

Pascal Kobeh / Close-up of the tail and the sting of a Round ribbontail ray (Taeniura meyeni) coast of Dhofar and Hallaniyat islands, Oman. Arabian Sea.